Gibbeting

British pirate

Main gibbet of the Kings of France until the time of Louis XIII of France

thumb|The reconstructed gallows-style gibbet at [[Caxton Gibbet, in Cambridgeshire, England]] Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet () was also used as a method of public execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation. The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet is also called hanging in chains.

philologist (1704–1759)

woman from New France who murdered her second husband (1733-1763) and well-known figure in Québécois folklore